Kai the Kiwi

Kai/sharon ~ 30 ~ asexual/biromantic ~ her/she/they/them ~ feminism ~ wildlife ~ herbalism ~ witchcraft ~ art

[weaver-z]

I will trust a thousand out-of-touch left-leaning southerners who don't know every piece of correct terminology before I trust one weird "feminist/LGBTQ+ ally" dude who couches his bigotry in pseudo-progressive language

[weaver-z]

60-year-old former hippie I met in Arkansas: I don't really know much about the whole deal, but I get it. I mean, you like ladies, and I like ladies, and some people like dudes. People should just leave fags and dykes alone, it's common sense.

Me: Hell yeah brother

Closet-reactionary liberal college student I met last year: Of course I love and respect the queer and trans community! However, one can argue that the early gay community's... casual attitude toward sex was a disastrous political and social mist--

Me: I'm going to throw you into traffic

[concerningwolves]

sometimes having a special interest really is like

[coureirsix]

LITERALLY some of you don’t fucking know what “disposable income is” like i cannot stress ENOUGH that someone who was able to get animal crossing on day 1 of launch or a ps5 preorder that is still only working minimum wage job and/or cannot pay their rent on a monthly basis is NOT your enemy bruv they are NOT “the rich” like PLEASE cement that in your head. 

[mckitterick]

had to share @rykhafirehand ’s tags:

thank you for boiling off capitalist propaganda to get down to the essence of economics

[roach-works]

i’d like to add: you are SUPPOSED TO HAVE DISPOSABLE INCOME.

you are supposed to have enough money for toys and games and vacations. that is what the citizens of a normal and healthy society should be buying without stressing out about if they’re gonna be able to afford to live the next day. you’re not just supposed to have ‘a little bit’ or ‘if you save up’ or ‘sometimes you can treat yourself’, you are supposed to have disposable income, and plenty of it.

[arsanatomica]

Honestly, we’ve only seen deep sea fish at their worst. Deep sea fish are like the opposite of the fast food expectation vs reality meme.

[angst-buritto]

Was expecting an art post but got a lecture on fish pressurization instead

If that’s not 100% accurate description of this hellsite, nothing is.

[andrearrrrr]

Caterpillar creates place to hide so predators can't kill while it eats

[whitepeopletwitter]

[official-lucifers-child]

gen z: *blurry stock photo of lemons with the caption “lemn”*

[valorant-heart]

Here have this

[official-lucifers-child]

yup.

[dechart]

[loudestcrowdever]

I laughed so hard at this

[chronicallytiredofeverything]

The problem with being chronically ill is that when you become more sick, with more symptoms, people do not understand why its so upsetting.

"But weren't you in pain before?". Yes but this is a new pain that I haven't dealt with before.

"I thought you already had stomach problems?". Yes but this is a new symptom of it that scares me.

"Arent you used to this by now?". No, and I never will be.

Symptoms that have been had for months or years are hard enough to manage in the first place. Developing a new one is scary, and trying to find ways to cope while still juggling everything else is even more so. We are allowed to be upset at our symptoms progressing. It doesn't mean it wasn't bad before. It just means now its bad in another way we arent familiar with. And that sucks.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

If you're mentally ill, chronically ill or otherwise disabled, do yourself a favor and consciously work to dismantle the "if you're too sick to go to work you're also too sick to be on the computer" mindset which got drilled into most of us during childhood. You don't have to deny yourself joy. You don't have to directly or indirectly punish yourself for not being able to do certain things. It doesn't help anyone. All it does is make you even more miserable than you have to be. So make sure you don't punish yourself for being sick. Make sure you don't subconsciously sabotage yourself with the idea that you have to be punished for not being abled. Make sure you embrace the joy you can find instead of denying yourself out of unnecessary guilt.

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

I haven't seen dancing pumpkin guy ONCE this year, are you guys okay?

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

FINE! I'll do it myself

[insomniac-arrest]

[wizardpotions]

I honestly think that the reason that twitter and tik tok think that tumblr is dead is that it does not have an algorythym that spoon feeds you content in the same way, there's no fyp and there's no news feed in the same way and people come here not realising they actually have to follow creators to see content.

[whathaveimissednow]

Literally yes

[gorgoroth-deactivated20220130]

“wait... who am I supposed to follow?” is an unintentionally and violently honest sentence

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

i don’t think violence, or greed are the roots of human nature. i think warping looms and making soups are.

[womenintheirwebs-archived]

everyone is zeroing on the soup part which is nice but weaving has been around for at least 12,000 years (more like 30,000 years but yee). weaving is one of the first technologies that human beings developed and perfected and i think that’s neat.

[gandalfsbignaturals]

two fundamental needs are warm (soup) and soft (fabric)

[wilwheaton]

All the Glens in the world can shut the fuck up forever.

[thebibliosphere]

Good morning! I'm having one of those limited energy days where going for a shower is probably going to wipe all my spoons out.

So this is your gentle reminder: if you are also struggling today, self-care is vital and if all you do today is the bare minimum to make it through, you've done enough and I'm proud of you. You don't need to do more to be worthy of rest.

[buttrockerbitches]

i’m watching this documentary about halloween and there’s a part where they’re explaining that ghost stories got really popular around the civil war no one could really deal with how many people went off and died and

the narrator just said 

“the first ghost stories were really about coming home”

fuck 

[buckleupbones]

#but wow let me tell you about how the american civil war changed the whole culture of grief and death  #because before that people died at home mostly  #where their family saw them die and held their body and had proof they were really dead and it was a process  #but during the war people left and never came home their bodies never came back there was no proof  #people died in new horrific ways on the battlefield literally vaporized by cannonballs or lost in swamps and eaten by wild animals  #and there were NO BODIES to send home  #and people simply couldn’t grasp that their son or father or husband was really gone  #there are stories about people spending months searching for their loved ones  #convinced they couldn’t be dead if there were no body they were simply lost or hurt and they needed to be saved and brought home  #embalming also really started during the civil war as a way for bodies to be brought home as intact as possible  #wow i just wowowow the culture of death and grief and stuff during this time period is fascinating and sad  #history  (via souryellows)

[glumshoe]

#quietly reblogs own tags  #also the civil war was when dog tags and national cemetaries became a thing  #and during the war there was n real system in place to notify families of the deaths  #like they’d find out maybe from letters from soldiers who were there when their loved one died nd stuff  #but there was no real system  #and battlefield ambulances were basically invented because so many people died on the battlefield when they could have been saved if they co  #…could have been moved frm the battlefield to a hospital  #like there was this one really inlfuential dude whose son died that way and he became dedicated to getting an ambulance system in place  

[thehighestpie-blog]

I’m not doing this in the correct tag-style, but.

IIRC, the Civil War also played a huge part in forming the modern American conception of heaven as this nice, domestic place where you’re reunited with your loved ones.  People (particularly mothers) responded to the trauma of brother-killing-brother by imagining an afterlife in which families would once again be happy together.

[pilferingapples]

(also not doing this in the correct tag-style, because I wanna KNOW— )What documentary is this? Or is there more than one? Any books on the subject? THIS IS FASCINATING.

[elizastrange]

cool (ghost) story, bro.

[mswyrr-deactivated20181203]

reblogging because, as a us history phd student, i want to say YAY for how much of this is totally on point. i also want to rec the book where a lot of this is covered very, very well, which is Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”

a lot of books on the Civil War are deadly dull because they’re about battles and shit, but as a transformative moment in mindset and ideology, it becomes *fascinating*

the other book I’d even more highly rec is David W. Blight’s “Race and Reunion,” which is about how the “(white) brother against (white) brother” image of the war was invented and how throwing African Americans to the merciless viciousness of post-Reconstruction racist whites was part of constructing this “oh everybody was white men and everybody was noble let’s celebrate them all” approach to Civil War remembrance

very good stuff

[pilferingapples]

Thank you! This looks like exactly the sort of reading I’m after! *adds to wish list*

[mazarin221b]

Also, look for David Blights recordings of his Yale  lecture series on The Civil War. 21 hours of class lectures, and its FASCINATING. He barely touches on the battles other than to use them as timestamps as to what was going on. Most of it focuses on what the mindset of everyone was going into the war, and what happened on the way out. It’s an amazing series that will change your entire perception of the war - how it happened, and how it wasn’t going to be possible to avoid it, because of the inherent evil of slavery and how it was destroying damn near *everyone* except rich white people.

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Link

[taratnel456]

the idea that meds/therapy can’t fix problems caused by situational/societal issues can coexist with the idea that meds and therapy can be very helpful for many people and shouldn’t be demonized or presented as useless for risk of scaring people away that might really benefit

[noisepartythumpingmusic]

#god yeah i am so sick of this new wave of pseudo woke doomerism#about how mental health treatment is pointless bc the world is such a mess#like yes there are many many problems in the world but that doesn’t mean getting help for your mental health won’t make you feel at least a#like any worldview that boils down to ‘the correct response to our current situation is abject despair’#is just not something i can get behind#so pls don’t peddle messages of hopelessness to people who are already inclined to believe them

Strong strong strong cosign @storybookprincess

[carovingian]

you can need crutches AND the sidewalks can need repair.

[theconcealedweapon]

[evilsanlang]

ermine stoat weasel mink ferret polecat the genus mustela just keeps on giving

[i-am-fert]

you go girls!!!